STATUTORY REFERENCES
General provisions and definitions — See
53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
Offensive businesses — See 18
Pa.C.S.A. § 4107 et seq.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987]
In a "D" Business District, the regulations
set forth in this chapter shall apply.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 364. Passed 7-26-1999. Ord. 369.
Passed 12-13-1999. Ord. 376. Passed 9-25-2000; Ord. 387. Passed 7-17-2001]
In a "D" Business District, a building may be
erected or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the
following purposes and no other:
(a)
A retail store selling or leasing for local neighborhood
use one or more of the following items at retail: food, groceries,
meats, vegetables, fruit, drugs, cosmetics, hardware, clothing, jewelry,
watches, optical goods, nursery stock or musical, professional or
scientific instruments.
(b)
An office, bank or financial institution.
(c)
A personal service shop of a dressmaker, shoe repairer,
tailor or hairdresser.
(d)
Medical offices of a private practitioner, other than
a clinic.
(e)
An undertaker, but not including a crematorium.
(f)
A baker, confectioner or custom shop for the production
of articles to be sold only on the premises.
(g)
A restaurant and a catering establishment, when authorized
as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(h)
Dog and cat kennels when authorized as a conditional
use by the Board of Supervisors, subject to the following criteria
which will be applicable only to such uses:
(i)
When permitted by special exception, a single building
of up to 25,000 square feet of gross floor area (not including unoccupied
basement areas) which is used in conjunction with elderly housing,
residential nursing care facilities and personal care facilities existing
primarily on the same or an immediately adjoining tract or lot and
which contains one or more of the following uses: offices, private
garage, private bus parking spaces and maintenance facilities.
(j)
A municipal use.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 364. Passed 7-26-1999. Ord. 376.
Passed 9-25-2000]
Any use not complying with this chapter is prohibited
in a "D" Business District. The following uses are specifically prohibited:
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987]
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 328. Passed 7-22-1996; Ord. 438.
Passed 11-15-2005]
(a)
Front Yard. In a "D" Business District, there shall
be a front yard on each lot which shall not be less than 10 feet.
(b)
Side Yards. There shall be two (2) side yards on each
lot, neither of which shall be less than 5 feet, with an aggregate
side yard requirement of 30 feet.
(c)
Rear Yards. There shall be a rear yard on each lot
which shall not be less than 30 feet.
(d)
District Yard. No side or rear yard adjacent to any
residential district shall be less than 50 feet in depth.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 438. Passed 11-15-2005]
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987]
The maximum height for buildings or other structures
erected or enlarged in a "D" Business District shall be 30 feet, not
exceeding two stories.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 438. Passed 11-15-2005]
(a)
Parking and Loading. In a "D" Business District, all-weather parking and loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 1294.
(b)
Setbacks. No parking, loading or driveway area shall
be located in any required front yard setback or closer than five
(5) feet to any side or rear property line except as required for
normal ingress and egress only. In the case of any property line being
adjacent to a single-family residential district, no parking, loading
or driveway area shall be located closer than 25 feet to such property
line except as required for normal ingress and egress.
[Ord. 233A. Passed 6-18-1987; Ord. 251. Passed 2-16-1988; Ord. 364.
Passed 7-26-1999; Ord. 369. Passed 12-13-1999; Ord. 399. Passed 5-21-2002; Ord. 400. Passed 5-21-2002; Ord. 438. Passed 11-15-2005]
(b)
Gross Building Area. The maximum size building that
may be erected on a lot shall be 6,500 gross square feet, whether
on a single or multiple levels. All usable or occupied floor space
shall be included in the area calculation.
(1)
Bonus for Interconnection and Shared Driveway.
By conditional use, the Board of Supervisors may permit up to ten-percent
increase in the allowable impervious coverage and up to a one-hundred-percent
increase in the allowable gross floor area of a building when an applicant
provides for an interconnecting driveway and shared parking with an
adjacent property. Any such interconnection and shared parking must
be designed to the satisfaction of the Township Engineer; be in compliance
with all applicable requirements of the Subdivision and Land Development
Ordinance for parking lots; and be memorialized on the final plans
as well as in such recorded easement agreements as shall be deemed
necessary by the Township Solicitor. When approved by the Board of
Supervisors and the Township Engineer, a shared entry driveway may
serve as the interconnection contemplated by this paragraph.
(2)
Bonus for Interconnection, Shared Driveway and Increased Front Yard
Setback. By conditional use, the Board of Supervisors may permit the
maximum size of a building which may be erected on a lot in the "D"
Business District to be up to 25,000 gross square feet when provision
is specifically made to permit the possibility of both an interconnecting
driveway with an adjoining property also zoned “D” Business
and a shared entry driveway with the same adjoining property, and
further provided that the entirety of such a building is set back
at least 450 feet from the center line of Bethlehem Pike. In such
a building only, a day-care facility shall be considered a permitted
use.
[Added 12-8-2009 by Ord. No. 469]
(c)
Landscaping. All development in the "D" Business District
shall be designed and maintained in accordance with the landscape
provisions of the Subdivision Regulations. In addition, there shall
be a suitable and effective landscape barrier at the edge of the property
adjacent to any public street. Such buffer strip shall be at least
10 feet wide and shall channel motor vehicle ingress and egress from
the property providing a maximum of one access road per 100 feet of
frontage and in no case more than two access roads per property.
(d)
Utilities. All development in the "D" Business District
shall be served by public sewer and water. All utilities serving a
permitted use in this district shall be underground.
(e)
Outdoor Land Use. There shall be no outdoor storage
or display of goods or materials, other than nursery stock plants,
for marketing, storage or any other purpose. The outdoor storage of
trash shall be designed and maintained to be completely screened from
view by a landscape buffer.
(f)
Hazardous Uses. No building shall be erected, altered
or maintained, and no lot shall be used for any purpose, trade or
business, that is noxious, offensive or potentially injurious to health
by reason of odor, noise, dust, smoke, heat, gas, radiation or vibration.
(g)
Building Spacing. The distance at the closest point
between any buildings shall be not less than 30 feet.
(h)
Site Lighting. Exterior lighting provided in conjunction
with any building or use shall be placed not higher than 14 feet above
grade and shall be screened so as not to permit the source of illumination
to be seen from off the premises. Only color corrected types of illumination
shall be used. The hours of illumination of such lights shall be limited
to hours of business operation and shall otherwise be extinguished
between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, prevailing
time.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection (i), Detention Basins, which
immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 8-22-2017 by Ord.
No. 513.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 1280.10, Application
procedure, was repealed 2-21-1995 by Ord. No. 314.
